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Gently, Mark moved closer to the baby cot and lowered Aiden who had fallen asleep in his arms I to it.

He covered him well with the blankets and still patted him for a while before he pulled away.

He flexed his shoulders and rolled his neck and arm, that must have gone sore from carrying Alden for so

long.

Then he casually perched at the foot of the bed, his hands briefly grazed my feet before he placed his hands on his thighs.

"Why are you so keen on finding Lucas, though?" He asked as he faced the pole that was at the foot of the bed. He turned to me and his shoulders lifted in the briefest shrug, "I mean, it's been so long since he contacted you or tried to reach out to you. He hasn't made any attempt since he left."

to defend him and I did. "What if something happened to him and he's unable to reach out to anyone? What if

when I tell you very clearly that that man," he mouth twisted bitterly, "my uncle, does not love you anymore. No matter the circumstances, no matter how high and disciplined a man's sense of reasoning is, when he is in love with a

trying to hide the pain that came

am. And I'm sure that Lucas doesn't love

grown unashamed in declaring his love for me. Sometimes, it felt odd. And I just

want you to get hurt more than you already are. If Lucas loved you, he'd spend every of his free

you."

at this. "What's he? A private investigator? Come on, a man, even though he's in love,

shoulders in a shrug, a smug smile dancing across his lip. "I

just like you, always appearing around me uninvited," I couldn't help this thought in

to keep it to myself and just nodded

the fact that I had just teased him about him insisting on loving me

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to avoid any conversation that dwelled

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